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Thats to bad, she just got moved to the coaching staff or something too didn't she? Was hoping analytics directly to players would help them out.

You are comparing an Apple to a dinosaur, BC and California are so different. If BC can't handle a little bit of electricity for cars, well then we better stop building homes. I don't think you realize how little power is needed to charge up an EV, I just spent the last 3 months using a regular 110v outlet charging nightly. It costs me about $40 in electricity a month to drive 3000 kms, thats peanuts of my electricity bill. And I hate to break it to you, theres actually a "surplus" of energy that starts around 5-6pm because as all the offices and small mom and pop shops shut down for the evening and people go home, that electricity basically shifts from business to residential, so its not a massive strain on the grid like some try to make you think it is. My old house, to heat my hot tub used to cost me about $50 a month (older model, don't think it was very good at holding heat by the end), it was costing me more than my car. Do you think BC is just gonna walk over to Hydro and flick a breaker and shut down cities at night? If so you don't have electric heat, air conditioning, cooking, lights, etc. The average BC home can EASILY fit EV chargers (if you want a 20/30/40 amp breaker) on their 100amp home panel. If you can run a dryer on 40 amps, you can easily charge your EV at night with a 20/30/40 amp, with 20/30 being easily big enough. And honestly if you don't do more than 150kms/day driving (which the average is something like 50 I think), you can easily get away with 120v outlets and only need faster charging if you were road tripping. Yes you can say the grid needs to be updated and improved, but that needs to be done regardless. Our grid is old, we have 400k new people coming to Canada every year, you're looking at probably 50k I assume to come to BC so you have to adjust for that (minus dead people yearly) and need to upgrade the grid anyways. BC and Cali are completely different beasts, not even remotely comparable.

Fast chargers aren't meant to be much cheaper than gas/diesel. They are a fast supply of electricity that are meant for convenience. Big difference between BC and UK is that the UK is well over 50% of their power is done via gas/coal/oil while only 5% of BC is via gas/oil, having Hydro do 90% of the electrical work is key and waters not stopping flowing any time soon.

Who knows! I had to swap jobs to get a raise!

Well glad my electric is my family main vehicle and I just got a Tundra for work that they will pay my fuel luckily.

And Sumas! Hell when borders closed I am amazed those towns still exist now!

The low risk ones won't net you massive returns but also won't net you massive losses. I have a good portion of my money in MF (or whatever my Financial Advisor buys), they have averaged over the years 6-8% for my parents and me (30+ years for parents), so hasn't beat the S&P (which is usually what people compare to), but this year with S&P being down 23% YTD, my portfolio is only down about 5-8% with them so its a little give and take. I pay higher fees with them and net some lower returns but at the same time they are pretty darn conservative and the drawdowns are much smaller.

Cup or bust!

1040/1130/730, etc all work just fine in my EV. 650 just had such garbage reception out in the fraser valley. Never had an issue in either my Ioniq EV or Jetta or even my excavators with other stations, for whatever reason 650 was just hot trash from day 1

Our system has been stressed for decades, last thing they needed to do was get rid of health care workers. And they weren't fired or laid off, they were put on leave as far as I know, where they couldn't even collect EI that they pay into all their lives. None of those people are sitting around a year later waiting for their HC jobs to come back, they have moved on unfortunately, putting a bottle neck on the HC system that really won't get relief possibly ever, you'll never find enough people to get things running smoothly to the standards we need. And I get 20/20, my issue was they went through the first 3 waves working just fine when there was no vaccine, then if I remember correctly a lot of the HC workers got laid off at the tail end of Delta and the beginning of Omicron when the facts were showing the it was much less severe. I am 100% for vaccines, I got my 2 shots to protect myself, schools need them, HC has them, etc. But there should also be a bit of a grandfather clause where you don't get laid off just because you don't want to get it right away, especially when there is already a strain on the system. Any new hires it could easily be a requirement and then people know what they are getting into. Its such a moving goal posts, I just feel for all the people who really need to go to the hospital to get looked at and wait there for hours on end because there is such a shortage of staff because their co-workers got laid off.

And those people have moved on most likely to other sectors/careers. This isn't going to help our health care system at all, they should have dropped that and never had it in the first place, they should have just been made to wear masks all shift and continue working and we wouldn't have lost a bunch of HC workers.

Wife had to fly to California for work yesterday, she forgot she needed a mask since we havent used them since all the provincial mandates were dropped and it took her an hour to find somewhere in the airport to sell a mask to her. You would think they could atleast hand out those 25 cent masks at the airline for those that forgot it.

Dang who wants to pitch in and co-live in this mansion. Canucks parties every game! I might just stick to my little 2 acre farm I got myself, I would probably get lost in that house with the size it is!

The golden era of tennis is coming to an end. Between Federer/nadal/Djokovic on the men's side and the Serena sisters on the women's side, tennis was golden to watch for me as a kid. I wonder if we will ever see such dominance in the future.

We got lucky, my parents are taking my 5 year old since Kindergarten is closed and luckily my daycare is staying open for my 2 year old. They were supposed to follow school closures all the time but they decided to stay open for those parents that are in a pickle so thats lucky for us (plus we are paying a monthly fee and already paid for the day so damn straight they should stay open!)

Wasn't a modern arena part of vancouver getting the Grizz? Did they play at BC Place? I thought they went straight to Rogers Arena (GM Place) when they got here.

They are going to daily podcasts I think pretty quick here if I remember correctly.

I am still amazed the governments haven't pushed verticle growing greenhouses where you can control humidity, temp, water, etc. I have seen some videos on it and seems cool, I actually want to try something like that in my greenhouse next year.

I personally like fixed, I like knowing what I will pay for atleast the next 5 years so I can budget/save/invest/put more onto the mortgage if I want. I locked in end of May at 2.94 so I am happy right now. I could whether variable fluxuations but I don't care for that, I very much like stability. Now if it were today, variable might be the better bet, could be more short term pain but could come out ahead in the long run, or not. No one really knows but you can go pick the brain of a couple mortgage brokers, see what they see and how it could work out in various scenarios.

First Concert: Bryan Adams (why the hell did my parents drag me to it?) Last Concert: Foo Fighters Best Concert: Roger Waters Worst Concert: Bryan Adams Loudest Concert: Foo Fighters Seen the Most: Angels and Airwaves Most Surprising: Weezer Next Concert: ???? Wish I Could Have Seen: Linkin Park

We do have a lot of other taxes built into our system that the states doesn't. Theres no income tax in 9 states so they make up that amount with the high property taxes. Yea you can tax my home more but then I don't want to pay taxes to the BC government. It balances out in the end.

When I saw the Supreme Court make that ruling a couple weeks ago I was blown away. Like absolutely mind blown. Pretty much they said go out and get completely ****ed up and because you are so intoxicated we won't do anything and you're protected......

What do you mean you don't get anything? You are getting your health care paid for, schools, firefighters, police, MPs and Prime Mininister wage increases and fat pensions and expenses paid for life, ambulance, roads, transit, etc.

Don't they usually have inside shoes or little booties to slip over? Atleast the ones I have dealt with have.